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I have never done sound before and this was both exciting and nerve-wracking at the same time. I have watched the movie Clueless countless of times before so, finding music for this play was not that hard. Seeing that, I became sound so late Mahnum had majority of the sounds. I used the actual movie for reference when looking up songs that we were missing to ensure that it was the correct one.

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I made sure that on the day of the rehearsals for the 9WBOAT that, I stayed back to add in all the missing cues and rearrange them in order according to my script. I also went through my whole entire script again and made sure that all my cues were correctly labeled with the help of Sherry's script (that she allowed me to borrow), that was used for confirmation and reference. As well as, I made sure to add the volume level to play certain songs that Mrs. Mann, the cast or Sherry/Armaan wanted to me play it at so that I knew for the show. I also taught Mahnum how to do sound, which helped me to refresh my memory on what I was doing for my own show.

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While reading the script, I was imagining how the songs would flow throughout the scene. I tried to read the lines for certain scenes to know when to cue the sound. To illustrate, when Cher is giving her speech during her class I wanted to cue the American national anthem for when she said "but it's like...," as that is when Cher felt like she making a deep speech and speaking more with passion.

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Mahnum and I began highlighting all of the sound cues in the script.I also started to label all of the pages in the script so that, in case while up in the booth I was not on the right page, Sherry would be able to direct me by telling me the page number.

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I began playing around with sound, to help me get familiar with doing the sound cues. For example, I tried playing two sounds at once to see how I could fade out one sound while playing the other, as there were a lot times that I needed to play multiple sounds at once. This helped me get comfortable and feel secure within my role.

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Mrs. Mann, Sherry and I started to label all the cues in the script "SFX Q..." so that when Sherry wants me to do something, she would call out the cue and I would know because I labeled it in my script. Mahnum and I made a list of all the cues that were missing so that, we could download it and add them into the cues later.

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I had a very fun time while working on this play and I very much enjoyed my production role. I wish that in my previous years of being in drama that, I would have taken on this role sooner. I never thought that I would enjoy the production role of sound so much. I surprised myself with my ability to learn and adapt to the role of sound so quickly. I am proud of myself for doing something that I usually would not have done.

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The day that we performed (Thursday), we rehearsed in class and after school I made sure that I turned on the masters like how Mrs. Mann taught me too. I always made sure that after I loaded all of my sound, to play my first cue "Kids of America" to test the sound. I felt as though the performance was very well done and I made one mistake during the show but Chrissa helped me cover my error, either than that I believe that I did pretty well for someone who has never done sound before.